Do you dress your baby girls in blue & green?

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DC1 was a boy, I dressed him in gorgeous funky prints, reds, greens, orange yellow and of course the boy staple blue. I generally only avoided black and wasn't so keen on grey, but I did have it.

DC2 is a girl and I finding so many multipacks have what I would consider as dull boy colours in them. So M&S or next a pack of bodysuits has one blue one or green leggings in a set. Am I being U to not want to dress choose these for my DD? Obviously when she's older (like DS ) she can pick, but I want her to look like a girl as a baby. I don't do hair bands and ott dresses, I want normal everyday clothes but in like pink, dusky pinks, white, peach, yellow, Liliac. Am I totally on my own here ?

Yes happy for her to wear blue and green. Blue especially as she has big blue eyes. One of my favourite items at 6 months okd was a beautiful blue dress from boots. I find clothing aimed at girls still manages to look girly even if its a 'boy' colour (she wears blue leggings and t shirts sometimes too!). Just bought her first proper shoes and bought blue ones. Blue was traditionally a 'girl' colour anyway. I enjoy putting her in non stereotypical colours but I do like her to actually look like a girl too (I know I know it shouldn't matter....)

Yes @Frlrlrubert I was just going to say that - make the most of dressing them in all the colours when they are a baby as now mine are 5 and 3 it's pointless buying anything not pink (and unicorned) as it will get shunned

I think blue leggings is OK for a baby girl as long as she looks nice in them! I have a baby boy atm and I wouldn't like to dress him in anything I considered girly. I was given a white fluffy outdoor suit for him and even think that looks slightly girly. I did put him in it but I wouldn't have bought it for him myself.

I can't believe any one bits a baby boy in a pink bodysuit to flip this.

You’re wrong.. have baby boy and he is currently in an orange and peach sleep suit with a pink/purple/white crochet blanket covering him for his nap.

My neighbour made us the blanket and I could give a shit what the colour is, it was a beautiful gift. He looks equally as comfy in any colour I plonk him in providing it’s a nice breathable cotton it really does not matter two hoots.

Couldnt* give a shit

My daughter wears all colours and has done from birth.

One day she was out toddling along wearing a pink dinosaur top and blue leggings, and one father with his kids loudly said something like "What a sweet little boy" I just laughed and said "He is a she".

Another day she was out in a blue top with rainbows on it and green leggings, and a different father out with his kids loudly said "What a sweet little girl". I just smiled.

I've come to the conclusion that people just guess the sex of babies and toddlers regardless of what they were wearing.

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Feminist10101

"I had to take DD, then 6 months, to a funeral and couldn’t find black baby clothes anywhere!"

I know it was a funeral but why would you feel you had to dress a 6 month old in black? She's a baby no-one is going to judge her for not dressing appropriately!

DH’s family can be a bit weird about stuff like that. His relative had “lain in state” overnight at the church and there were lots of parishioners observing mourning practices I had no idea existed. I didn’t want DD to prove any sort of distraction from what was important to them so I thought it better for her to “blend in”.

Did you know that it's relatively recently that pink has been deemed a girl's colour and blue for boys? It used to be the reverse and pink was viewed as a very masculine colour.
I say dress your babies in whatever colour you want to. If heaven forbid someone mistakes your baby for the opposite sex then they must be a stranger to you otherwise they would already know from birth!

Yep- blue is my favourite colour so DD had tons of blue stuff and green looked great on her too. I prefer pastel greens to strong greens though so she didn't wear much dark green.

You are putting your child in a box. She is only acceptable to you, to the world, if she presents in “ pink, dusky pinks, white, peach, yellow, Liliac“.

Loads of pale blue, mint green and yellow. She looks beautiful in those colours as she has very blue eyes. I try and avoid too much pink as it doesn't suit her skin tone as much.

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I think blue leggings is OK for a baby girl as long as she looks nice in them! I have a baby boy atm and I wouldn't like to dress him in anything I considered girly. I was given a white fluffy outdoor suit for him and even think that looks slightly girly. I did put him in it but I wouldn't have bought it for him myself.

“Looks nice”.

Baby girls need to “look nice”? WHY?!

I have a baby nephew and the only thing I am interested in is if he looks comfy/warm enough! You could dress him as a potato and nobody should give a shiny shit!

I dressed both my DDs in a lot of pink because I love pink, it's my favourite colour.

They also had some pale blue things, and some things in pale/mint/aqua green because I love that colour too.

I never put them in anything black as I hate black clothes, I never wear it myself, at 29 and 27, DDs wear whatever they like! Though DD2 who lives with me loves pink too, its always our first choice colour.

We don't know which flavour we'll get until it comes, but I've bought blue/green babygrows so if she's a girl I will indeed dress her in blue and green.
I've had one comment already that blue is for boys. We really need a rolling eye emoji.

My baby’s ‘welcome to the world’ outfit is a romper printed with anatomically accurate whales, and a white cardigan. I think it’s perfect whether they’re boy / girl / whatever. Who wouldn’t want a whale print outfit

I only dressed dd in girly colours like pink, peach, lilac and some turquoise and preferred pastels on her because she was fair skinned. Most of her stuff was from next.

I'm too old for all this "you can't dress a girl baby in blue" and "if you want to sell a toy truck for a girl to play with it must be in a special girl colour". It's a development that's happened within my lifetime and it's not hard to see who it benefits (clue: it's not the child or the parents).

The pink fisher price bouncing zebra thing did it for me. Why the fuck would there ever need to be a pink zebra as well as a black and white one? Zebras are not PINK!

Or a pink fucking GLOBE?!

“What colour is the sea, Tabitha?” Pink.

On seeing an actual zebra: “what animal is that, Stephanie?” Stripey horse?

I’ve struggled to find things in yellow. It’s my favourite colour, but the powers that be have clearly decided that yellow is now a girls colour and every onesie / vest / pair of leggings I find is covered in daft frills or peplums. Nice, neutral yellow baby clothes are nowhere to be found!
Powers that be have definitely decided yellow is a girl's colour.
I wanted some yellow joggers/leggings for DS and for some reason they all had to have stupid 'girl markers' on. I wouldn't put a daughter in silly frills either

Mamas and Papas had some nice things in yellows and greys recently.

@LolaSmiles it’s so frustrating, isn’t it? Why do girls have to have frills anyway? It doesn’t benefit them and half the time it’s probably actively annoying!

That’s a good tip about mamas and papas, I will have a look.

Yes my DD wears blue and green.

Her T-shirt yesterday even had a TRUCK on it.

When his first grandchild was born my father went and bought a pair of Disney babygros with Winnie-the-Pooh on.

One of them was bright - I mean bright, Barbie fuchsia - pink. Child was a boy.

Thing is, my dad was born in 1931 and already had a couple of children by the time this Pink stuff happened. (I too think the old ladies are doing it on purpose, but possibly not just to be annoying Not sure my dad had even noticed, though...)

I'm female, and I wear blue and green all the time. And black.

@Feminist10101 I don't see an issue with those toys. Maybe the child's room is pink so you buy pink toys to go in it if you want to. My child has a cat shaped money box with a unicorn horn and a rainbow tail. There's no such thing but it looks cute in her room and she likes it.

@LolaSmiles my DS (2) looks gorgeous in yellow and I got him some yellow joggers from Frugi recently, and a yellow and white sweatshirt from M&S with a sun on it. Also think M&S has some yellow neutral dungarees.

My favourite colour is blue - I have pale skin and blue eyes and it really suits me. DS looks like me and also really suited it, so he wore a lot of blue, but not because he’s a boy! He also looks fantastic in dark/fuchsia pink and had babygros and vests in that colour as a baby. It’s harder now he’s older as the pink clothes tend to have stupid impractical frills and collars etc. I’m pregnant with a girl and she will be wearing all of DS’s hand me downs. I cannot imagine why you would care if a stranger got your baby’s sex wrong. Sexist stereotypes are damaging for both boys and girls and it starts from birth now.

God forbid you put a black and white version of something that is actually black and white in a pink room.